Bookbinding, with numerous engravings and diagrams by Hasluck Paul N. (Paul Nooncree) 1854-1931

Author:Hasluck, Paul N. (Paul Nooncree), 1854-1931
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Bookbinding
Publisher: London, New York [etc.] : Cassell and Company, Limited
Published: 1907-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Bookbinding.

slightly charged and the spots or drops thrown off are very small and fine. He then in the same way, keeping his hands tolerably high, strikes the brush forcibly against the stick, so as to send down a shower of very small red spots upon the edges of the book beneath. Considerable practice is required for the proper performance of apparently so simple an operation as sprinkling.

Although the method of preparing red sprinkle has been described at length, the amateur will find that almost any dye or stain (such as Judson's dj'es), diluted if necessary, can be used. Some binders use ordinary writing ink even. A method of ornamenting book edges that permits of a great variety of treatment is to scatter over the edges, before

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sprinkling, rice grains and small seeds, or small paper patterns of various shapes. By altering the an-angement of the seeds or patterns and sprinkling with a different colour a variety of effects can be produced. This method is noted on p. 81. The edges of a book should be burnished after sprinkling, colouring, or marbling.

Another method of sprinkling, but one that is not recommended, is this : A small brush like a sixpenny gum brush, dipped in colour, is held tightly beween the finger and thumb of the left hand near to the end of the hair. The forefinger of the right hand strikes the projecting hair with a movement similar to that employed when playing a Jew's harp. The brush does not hold much colour owing to the

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